The night before her wedding, Xiao Pei, a concubine-born daughter of the Xiao family, starved to death in the woodshed.
A graduate student in Chinese literature opens her eyes and finds herself in the body of this cannon-fodder concubine-born daughter.
Her legitimate elder sister is marrying the Crown Prince in a lavish wedding procession, while her own father treats her as a pawn and sends her to the powerful, disabled Prince Regent Gu Shen to bring him good luck.
The bridal sedan is shabby, she has to bow to a rooster at the wedding, and once she enters the bridal chamber, a sword is held to her throat.
Xiao Pei raises both hands in surrender. “You can kill me if you want, but let me have a proper meal first!”
Everyone assumes she’s a spy planted by the Crown Prince, and waits to see how soon she’ll meet her end in the prince’s residence.
Who could have guessed that the new princess consort would talk about nothing but food?
She pushes the prince around the garden and even dares to stick a fragrant orchid in the hair of a powerful minister.
The lotus jade pendant left by her birth mother is her only keepsake,
but it accidentally leads her to uncover old secrets buried in the palace more than ten years ago.
Gu Shen originally regards her as a suspicious pawn, watching her coldly from the sidelines.
But later, all he tells the world is this: “My princess consort can do as she pleases.”
